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Cambodian New Year Festival 2013

February 5th, 2013

Due to unforeseen circumstances the Cambodian New Year Festival 2013

has been CANCELLED

We apologize for this and hope to be back next year

Cambodian New Year Festival

What’s the Festival all about?

  • Cultural Activities including Cambodian Dances
  • Traditional Music
  • Good Food
  • Fun Games for Kids

What is Cambodian New Year ?

Khmer New Year is the greatest traditional festival and national holiday. Khmer New Year begins on April 13th or 14th, depending on the ancient horoscope, “MohaSangkran”. The majority of the Khmer populations are farmers. Farmers reap and harvest their crops from the rice fields all year long, except during April. In April, there is no rain and it is very hot. Therefore, the farmers rest from working in the rice fields and celebrate the New Year.

The first day of New Year is called “Moha Sangkran,” meaning “welcoming their new angels.” This year is the year of the Rooster (Mon), and Moha Sangkran of the New Year will begin on April 13th. The leader of Angels is named KimiteaTevi. Khmer people clean and decorate their homes and prepare fruits and drinks to welcome their New Angels. Elderly people like to meditate or pray the Dharma because they believe that any angel who comes to their homes will stay with them and take care of their family for that whole year. In the morning, Khmer people go to the temple to offer food to the monks and to receive blessing.

The second day of New Year is called “Wanabot,” meaning “to offer gifts to the parents, grandparents and elders.” In the evening, people go to the temple to build a mountain of sand to remember those ancestors who have passed and have the monks give them a blessing of happiness and peace. The third day is called “Leung Sakk;” that means “the year starts to be counted up from this day.” In the morning, Khmer people go to the temple to perform the ceremony of the mountain of sand to get blessed. The last ceremony is called “Pithi Srang Preah”, meaning to give a special cleansing to Buddha statues, the monks, elders, parents or grandparents to apologize for any mistake they have done and to gratify them. Khmer New Year is not just a great traditional festival. It is also a generation passing on traditions.

CAMBODIAN FESTIVAL COMMITTEES:

Diana Chin
Dr. Don Stannard-Friel
Jenny Chea-Vaing
Ratha Chuon
Sammy Soun
Tom Heath
Wai La

SPONSORS:

Hilton San Francisco
Bank of the Orient
Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center
Copy Mill Printing
Empire Market
Notre Dame de Namur University
San Francisco Recreation and Park
Tenderloin Children’s Playground

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Tenderlointreon in the SF Chronicle

May 21st, 2009

An article on our outdoor movie theatre appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 1, 2009. The article was written by Meredith May and is reprinted below:

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Tucked behind a tenement apartment in the Tenderloin, a hidden outdoor movie theater is bringing free cinema to San Francisco children whose parents can’t afford today’s ticket prices.

“Tenderlointreon” is projected onto the side of a coin laundry from the courtyard behind the nonprofit Indochinese Housing Community Afterschool Program.

On a recent Friday night, children huddled in blankets on plastic lawn chairs with free hot dogs and popcorn, absorbed in the animated movie “Bolt,” about a super-dog with the voice of John Travolta.

“Parents in this neighborhood are not going to drop $50 to take the family to the movies,” said Tom Heath, director of the after-school program.

Many families in the neighborhood fled conflicts in Vietnam and Cambodia decades ago, and then settled in tiny subsidized apartments in the Tenderloin, where children now live in crowded conditions with extended families.

Tenderlointreon offers them a safe place to stretch their legs, play with other kids and take in a movie and a free meal.

The outdoor movie theater was created by and for children in the after-school program, but other young people from the neighborhood can attend if they bring an adult with them.

“This is a great opportunity for kids who don’t know a lot about their environment because it’s unsafe to go outside,” said Munee Cheng, 19, who volunteers at the program.

Heath used $3,000 from a $10,000 grant from the Louis R. Lurie Foundation of San Francisco to pay for the projector, speakers and mixer. Children researched and bought the equipment, choose the movies, run the projector and make the popcorn.

Tenderlointreon premiered in July with the movie “Aladdin.” The courtyard, surrounded on three sides by multistory apartments, drew curious residents until the audience swelled to nearly 100 people, Heath said.

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